Tj designs, engineers and fabricates commissioned sculpture. His studio has multiple capabilities. With his established collaborators anything can be fabricated. Tj does art installations, workshops and consults for industry on creativity management with his company Novus Resource Inc. He writes books on understanding art, and sculpture process.
His theme: “Modern Impacts on Human Society” is his passion.
His recent larger commissions: Light Dodger & Renaissance Race, allowed exploration of architectural concrete methods and lighted glass.
Midwest public installations include: -“Big Ragtop”, Gerald R Ford Museum grand Rapids Mi. -“57 Descending” Ella Sharp Art museum Jackson Mi, 2012, and Grand Rapids Public Museum 2011, -“Car Chase”- Artprize 09 (top 25), -University of Toledo, -Tecumseh MI. -Hastings, MI. -Canton MI. –City of Troy, Ohio and Carbondale, Colorado juried by James Surles
Solo Shows include: -Forest Hills Art Center, Mi. 2012, -Grand Rapids Area Arts council 2009, -Logsdon 1909 gallery Chicago 2008, -Holland, MI. Civic center 2007
Tj has done many regional Shows, plus Marshal M. Fredricks Sculpture Museum biennial show (award) 08, Velocity- international invitational Minneapolis MN 2008, Eyes on Design (top art prize) Grosse Pt., Mi 07.
Prior to 2006 Tj was a fortune 300 design director specializing in creativity process, training thousands of engineers in managing aesthetics. He holds design and process patents for analyzing Craftsmanship. His materials have been translated into 5 languages. His speaking engagements included: the Harvard “Front end of Innovation”, The Innovation Network, the Creative Problem Solving Institute and the University of Hertfordshire School of design, England on quantifying aesthetics.
He worked in Europe in the 90s setting up design studios and managing international projects. He now applies this industry expertise to the world of sculpture.
His wife and he were early adopters of home schooling and Europe rounded out their kid’s education. He has been involved with many new church concepts and is now fundraising with art for patients suffering from Chronic Lyme Disease.

Martha J Allard is a writer of contemporary and dark fantasy. Her short fiction has appeared in magazines like “Talebones” and “Not One of Us.” Her story “Dust” won an honorable mention in “Year’s Best Science Fiction,” 19th edition, edited by Gardener Dozois and her story,”Phase” was nominate for a British Science Fiction Award. They are both collected in the echapbook “Dust and Other Stories.” You may also find a selection of her previously published works on Wattpad.com. She was the editor of “Nice Tattoo, the Magazine of Shadow Fiction.” Her nonfiction has appeared in the anthologies “Lend the Eye a Terrible Aspect” and “Deaths Garden.” Her novel, “Black Light” is a tale of love, sacrifice and rock and roll in the 1980’s. You can find her on her blog, marthajallard.blogspot.com.

We would like to take this opportunity to announce that the instrumental jazz/blues trio Anderson Bourque is now available for engagements and bookings in the SE Michigan region. The group performs instrumental arrangements featuring a classic jazz guitar sound leaning into the blues occasionally, covering selections ranging from smooth jazz to classic pop. The key word to describe the style of the arrangements is “…Smooth”. Anderson Bourque also features a full set of jazzy Christmas covers for upcoming holiday events. We are available for any opportunity calling for a live jazz/blues combo, when the event requires that special air of sophistication and class. Please consider Anderson Bourque for your next event. We look forward to hearing from you soon.

Engaging with people across divides informs my poetry and other writing. Called a “new troubadour of witness” by Cyrus Cassells for my poetry chapbook, Where Are You From, Originally? (Finishing Line Press, 2016), I am also working on a collection of poems based on my experiences engaging with the “other” (or person or perspective difficult to understand or in opposition to one’s own) in Israel/Palestine. Poems from this collection have appeared in Crab Orchard Review, HEArt Journal Online: Human Equity through Art, and Scoundrel Time among others. My poems have won the Academy of American Poets Award, the Mary Merritt Henry Poetry Contest, and the Phenomena of Place Poetry Prize.

Vera, An accomplished cyclist, turned artist, is the real creator behind “Emotions In Motion”. Throughout Vera’s cycling career, she had captured 8 State Championship Titles in women’s cycling. She has transformed the emotion and motion of over ten years of world class bike racing into an array of creative expressions, from her “Sprocket Art” to her “Bike Chain Link Necklace”. Vera has also appeared live on the QVC Home Shopping Network displaying her unique Bike Chain-Link Necklace. Emotions In Motion originated in 1987 when Vera began her cycling career as an amateur racer. Over the next five years, she accumulated enough wins to be rated a Cat 2 racer in the sport and was invited to the Olympic Trials in 1992. After winning 8 State Championship Titles and 2 National medals, Vera traveled to Russia as a member of the U.S. Masters National Team to participate in the Master’s World Championship races. There, she captured an astonishing 5 Gold Medals and One Silver Medal. Vera had retired from competition in 1999 and has since puts most of her energy into her creativity & artwork, and enjoying a new artistic way of life. Sculptures: I consider them small scale ideas of grander ideas. I use my hands most of the time after cutting out a round about idea with a sculpting knife. Each one is sanded by my hand as well as with sand paper. I call them my “Energy Forms”. The plaster sculptures started years ago with the blind or unsighted in mind. At one time in my life I was fortunate enough to have experienced a small portion of the world as they see it. The impact on me was tremendous. My sculptures are created with the thoughts of being touched or held. Ink Work: I would very much like to believe everything is as simple as black and white, However… it’s not. It’s only black and white on the surface. If you take a closer look… things become just a little more complex and a little more complicated. “Just as all of us”The ink process is a form of meditation and a form problem solving for me. I love the challenge of creating new designs and patterns. I find drawing very relaxing. Paintings: I enjoy creating on canvas… my work is of expressionism, abstract ideas, emotions, thoughts, dreams, journeys, energy bursts, love, elation, puzzle solving, and fragments of thought and memories.

I have been a photographer for the past 35 years. I worked at Hurley as a staff photographer for over 20 years. I do freelance in commercial and public relations work. I also teach part time at Mott Community College in the Photo Department.

Melodie Bolt writes poetry and contemporary fantasy and dark fiction. She earned an MFA in Writing from Pacific University in Portland, Oregon and an MA in Composition and Rhetoric from University of Michigan-Flint. Her poetry has appeared in magazines like Pasque Petals, Aperqus, Verse Wisconsin, and Yellow Medicine Review. Her fiction has been recently published in the anthologies Incarceration (Wolfsinger Publications, 2017), Hoofbeats: Flying with Magical Horses (CreateSpace Independent Publishing PLatform, 2016), and the magazine Witches and Pagans, (#31, 2015). She is currently working on a dark fiction novel set in Flint and President of the Flint Area Writers, a critique group that meets every other Friday in Flint.

Won numerous acting and writing awards, appeared in seven major films, hunderds of theatrical productions, and has hosted, written, and produced multiple award-winning “Comedy On Tap” television show, a mix of variety and talk show formats.

Jaclyn began studying ballet in 1994 at Pavolaa’s School of Dance in Flint, MI. In 1998 Jaclyn began performing with Young Peoples Ballet Theater. While with YPBT she performed in ballets such as La Byadere, Sleeping Beauty, Little Women, and excerpts from Swan Lake, where she was cast as the White Swan. Jaclyn has been to several summer intensives around the country including Ballet Magnifict!, Joffrey, and Blue Lake. After her time with YPBT Jaclyn went on to study at Pittsburgh Ballet Theater where she was a student in their school program. Jaclyn is now studying and preforming with the University of Michigan-Flint. At U of M Flint she has performed in pieces such as Sleeping Beauty in Sleeping Beauty, the peasant pas de duex from Giselle, along with various other solo and partnering pieces. While at U of M she has been able to perform and take classes at the American College Dance Festival. Jaclyn teaches ballet and pointe at multiple studios around the area.

Holly MI artist William Brody has been a practicing painter for more than 42 years. Known nationwide for his realistic scenes of small town America, his work is found in many private and public collections.

We are the "American Swing Dance Champions" in the Masters (Folks over 50). We teach, judge and choreograph for many of the swing dancers in Michigan. We were voted the best couple swing dancers in the world two different times (In the Masters division). Beverly has retired from competition but Bob still competes across the country. We are the directors of the "Michigan Society for Swing & Hustle Dancers", a dance club in genesee county. Our club provides two dances each month. One on the first Friday of the month and the other on the third Saturday of each month. The dances are located at 2321 Corunna Rd. at the American Dance Center. Everyone is invited. A small admission is required. We sponsor the "Masters Tour", a string of events that highlight the Masters dancers and we give a substantial amount of money to the top four winners at the end of the year. Details are available at our website: Michiganswingdance.com This site also details our complete resume and information about our club.

Nexthought is my artist name. The point is tring to get people to think for themslves. I am a songwriter/singer as well as a artist of acrylic and pastel media. To learn more about the song -writer go to my website www.nexthought.info

My name is Micah Clarke and I am a Michigan based photographer. I am more of a candid “catch the moment” type of photographer. If you have any weddings or any events and want the perfect moment, I’m your guy! I really enjoy landscape and portrait photography. I want to inspire others that you’re not limited to just doing one thing. Find your passion and run with it. This is something I enjoy on the side, capturing God’s work of art. I look forward to working with you all.

Christopher has been in the art arena a very long time, 25 years to be exact. After retirement Christopher is an avid fixture in the downtown area. Christopher shoots any and everything he can witness through his lens. Many have collected his photos of their businesses, dogs, parades, self-portraits, etc… Christopher has a lust for life and witness each through his lens like no other. His smile is infectious and his cookies are profound. Christopher is also an avid baker with his cookies to his credit. Check out the Yoga Loft and Sharp Fitness to have the mouth watering climax revealed.

Nic Custer – poet, playwright, editor and journalist. Has released six poetry chapbooks including ALL POWER TO THE PEEP HOLES. In 2013, Custer Artist in Residence as part of a National Endowment for the Arts “Our Town” grant in Flint.

I am a photographer from Michigan. I love capturing a special moment whether it’s nature or people. I am drawn to old abandoned buildings, houses and barns. I have been taking photographs since I was 9 yrs. old but only since retiring from GM have I really found my calling in photography. I bought an Olympus OM-10 back in the 80’s and took a black and white course at Mott Community College but it was the purchase of a DSLR camera that really got me involved.

As an engineer I seek to explore the interplay between geometric elements by using found objects along with color, shape, and texture to tell a story whether it is at the quantum level of molecular interplay or as wide ranging as the universe. The primary image below is titled Dream Skein. Original pieces are available for sale as are giclee reproductions.

My training and background is in Art, but my passion is photography. I have found the same elements that are important in creating a good painting are also important in taking that "perfect" picture. Composition, texture, mood and the subtleties of light and color all play a role in portraying the beauty of the natural world. Whether I am working with a lens or a brush, I strive to capture the qualities that make wilderness so vital to the human spirit. A five month long trip through Alaska in 1987 was one of the best opportunities I have had to enjoy the beauty of our great country. Traveling by motor home allowed my wife and me to get up close and personnel to the settings I wanted to portray. My pictures tell Nature’s story and I hope that through viewing them people will have a better understanding of why we should preserve our wild lands. I am now consumed by the technological advances in digital photography and am looking forward to capturing images in a new and exciting way. I have attended both domestic and international art classes taught by some of the most recognized names in the Art world, Tony Couch, Irvin Shapiro, Al Stine, Tom Lynch, Dr. Joe Robertson and Joe Miller. I am a member and a advocate of the following associations: *Flint Lensmen Camera Club *Fenton ARt Guild *Flint Art Institute Won’t you please join me in a journey to some of our Wilder Places? View my website at: www.pbase.com/edjanphotos or —ejdrost@comcast.net

I began painting in the mid 1970s while in junior high school. My mom bought me a variety of oil paints and I found a love that has lasted a lifetime. For much of my painting careeer, I have been fascinated by wildlife of plants and animals, but later, I became interested in current events and the human condition. I currently live in Flint Michigan with my husband and my youngest of 4 wonderful children. I am the proud grandmother of 2 beautiful grandbabies.
In the spring of 2014 I began working on portaits of abandoned houses. I find beauty in the sad, lonely structures that were once homes, lived in and cared for by families. I have put them on canvas before they are gone, and there is nothing left but memories.I feel a personal connection to these homes, and I think about the unknown families that once lived in them. It is a story that unfortunately connects to so many people in the Flint area.